* Pavel Machek [off-list ref] [180625 09:52]:

Hi!

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V4.18 is slower than it should be.

user at devuan:~$ time cat /dev/urandom | head -c 10000000 |  bzip2 -9 -
| wc -c
10044291
52.73user 2.40system 61.53 (1m1.534s) elapsed 89.60%CPU
user at devuan:~$ uname -a
Linux devuan 4.18.0-rc1-87964-gfa19934-dirty #743 SMP Sun Jun 17
19:26:37 CEST 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux

That bzip should take 12 seconds, not minute.

Any ideas? Do you see it, too?

I've noticed firefox is super slow.. Git bisect time?

Hmm not happening for me at least on duovero and droid4,
I'm getting about 20s for v4.17 and v4.18-rc1.

Something weird is going on here. My notes say it should be 12
seconds.

It is indeed 20 seconds for v4.17, but it is 12 seconds in v4.14.

v4.14 is:
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is not set
CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y
# CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_LADDER is not set
CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_MENU=y
# CONFIG_ARM_CPUIDLE is not set

In v4.18, I have:

CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ATTR_SET=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_COMMON=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND=y

CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y
CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_MENU=y
CONFIG_ARCH_NEEDS_CPU_IDLE_COUPLED=y

I gave it a quick try here with v4.14 and it was 21 seconds
on 4430 duovero. But this was with omap2plus_defconfig.

Regards,

Tony